Phlegyas
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Phlegyas (Greek: Φλεγύας), son of Ares and Chryse, was king of the Lapiths in Greek mythology. He was the father of Ixion and Coronis, one of Apollo's lovers. While pregnant with Asclepius, Coronis fell in love with Ischys, son of Elatus. A crow informed Apollo of the affair and he sent his sister, Artemis, to kill Coronis. Apollo rescued the baby though and gave it to the centaur Chiron to raise. Phlegyas was irate and torched the Apollonian temple at Delphi and Apollo killed him. Phlegyas was consumed by envy and, cutting off his middle toe, cast it into the fires of hell to lay by his widowed Chlo'one. In the Aeneid of Virgil, Phlegyas is shown tormented in the Underworld and warning others not to despise gods. In the Thebaid of Statius, Phlegyas is entombed in a rock by Megaera, one of the Furies, and starves in front of an eternal feast. In the Divine Comedy Phlegyas ferries Virgil and Dante across the river Styx. Phlegyas was the mythical ancestor of the Phlegyans.
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